The trials and tribulations of student teaching can be quite daunting at times. Often you can feel like you are the only one making the famous "rookie mistakes". This scavenger hunt is designed to remind you that you are not alone. You will have days where everything seems to fall into place and other days where none of the pieces to the puzzle seem to fit. Some aspects to our Student Teacher Scavenger Hunt are more serious than others but all are experiences that at least one of us has lived through or come close to living through.
Rules
you MUST follow the mini-rules beneath certain questions (i.e- provide artifacts)
points range from 1 (very likely/not hard) to 10 (WOW amazing no way)
you MUST provide evidence/ artifacts- teacher signature, picture, doctor's note
in NO WAY SHAPE or FORM may you cause harm to your student teaching experience, your students, your school, or your CT!
situations MUST NOT be dangerous (ie- no blowing up the building, no mean pranks)
Funny Happenings
2 Show up to class in your labcoat for first lab day
2 Get pranked by another faculty member
5 Prank them back
8 If you prank in front of another teacher’s class
3 Get called by your first name by accident
3 Get called dad/mom
3 Chaperone a dance/ prom
4 Get into a fake-argument with your CT
4 Get pranked in front of a class
4 Have the students in home economics make you lunch
5 Have a kid throw up in your class
8 YOU throw up in your class
5 Buy lunch and eating by yourself/ in teacher’s lounge
5 Get called accidentally by your teacher’s name
5 Explode something your class (intentionally)
10 Explode something in your class (unintentionally)**
5 Get hit on by students’ parent
5 Have your students throw a birthday party for you
6 Brave the lunchroom and get lunch with the kids
6 Buying lunch in the cafeteria and eating it WITH students
6 Get oil changed by a student mechanic at school
7 Dance with another teacher
9 Dance with your CT
10 Dance with principal
9 Cause a student to squirt milk out of their nose
10 Drive the principal's car
3 Find out that you're allergic to chalk
6 Leave class to go to the hospital
More Serious Items
8 Bomb a lesson (NOT intentionally)
8 Cry in front of students
2 Meet the principal
3 Confiscate an electronic device
3 Experience the joy of a snow day
3 Experience the joy of multiple snow days
3 Attend a faculty meeting
6 Check papers during a faculty meeting
3 Stay after school 1 hour late
6 Stay after school 2 hours late
7 Stay after school at least 1 hour more than 2 days in one week
7 Have the janitorial staff insist that you leave because you are there too late
5 Go to a professional development workshop with your CT
5 Enjoy 100%% percent homework submission!
5 "Wing" a great lesson cold (not planned at all)
5 Chaperon a field trip
5 Develop and use a graphic organizer or worksheet that works w/ your students
5 Give a kid detention (a VALID one)
7 Have a student say he or she likes you more than the CT
7 Call parent to report student's conduct
10 Call parent to report student's poor grades
7 Get all of your lessons done a week ahead of time (NOT planning calendar)
7 Park in an administrator’s spot
8 Have your CT or another teacher use your materials
8 Get parents involved in your classroom ( ex - have a parent come in and speak)
8 Pull an all-nighter and then go in and teach
9 Your CT uses your entire lesson plans
9 If you’re taking another class (other than seminar + student teaching)
9 Have a legit accidental fire in your class - not smoldering
10 Break up a fight you didn’t start (of course)
10 Catch two students "making out" (or worse).
10 Start a club
10 Survive student teaching without getting sick
10 Get hired by district in which you are student teaching (you win!)
10 Get hired by usurping a current un-tenured teacher’s position
11 Graduate
Total Points:
If you scored a:
75 or better = You are the grand master, mack daddy of student teaching, and Hollywood is calling for the movie rights.
50-74 = congratulations you have successfully navigated the gauntlet we refer to as student teaching.
50 or below = you did not have nearly as much fun as you could have student teaching.
Welcome to the Student Teacher Scavenger Hunt!
Purpose
The trials and tribulations of student teaching can be quite daunting at times. Often you can feel like you are the only one making the famous "rookie mistakes". This scavenger hunt is designed to remind you that you are not alone. You will have days where everything seems to fall into place and other days where none of the pieces to the puzzle seem to fit. Some aspects to our Student Teacher Scavenger Hunt are more serious than others but all are experiences that at least one of us has lived through or come close to living through.Rules
Funny Happenings
More Serious Items
Total Points:
If you scored a: